Quotes About Nature

How sublime to look down on the workhouse of nature, to see her clouds, hail, snow, rain, thunder, all fabricated at our feet!

The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise.

Of course you cannot free yourself from the laws of nature; but the laws of nervous systems are not the same as the physical laws.

Is the painter a plagiarist because he sets his palette to nature?

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

in the day after humans disappear, nature takes over and immediately begins cleaning house - our houses.

The individual feels the futility of human desires and aims and the sublimity and marvelous order which reveal themselves both in nature and in the world of thought.

Fashion seldom interferes with nature without diminishing her grace and efficiency.

Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person.

If a thing can be done adequately by means of one, it is superfluous to do it by means of several; for we observe that nature does not employ two instruments [if] one suffices.

In a country where nature has been so lavish and where we have been so spendthrift of indigenous beauty, to set aside a few rivers in their natural state should be considered an obligation.

He who has conquered the internal nature controls the whole universe; it becomes his servant.

I would rather teach drawing that my pupils may learn to love nature, than teach the looking at nature that they may learn to draw.

Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature.

Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights.

How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.

Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty.

Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine, Earth for whose use? Pride answers, 'Tis for mine For me kind nature wakes her genial power, Suckles each herb, and spreads out every flower.

Habit is, as it were, a second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.]

If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.

This law of monogamy, or the monogamic system, laid the foundation for prostitution and the evils and diseases of the most revolting nature and character under which modern Christendom groans.

I deem it established, then, that the Constitution does not recognize property in man, but leaves that question, as between the states, to the law of nature and of nations.

My long experience with all classes of humanity had made me somewhat of a student of human nature.